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While the forces of fascism have been gaining power in the US and abroad and wielding it to wreak havoc on people’s lives this year, RAM has been steadily organizing and building. With our vision firmly fixed on a revolutionary solution, we have been taking steady, practical steps to build our groups, and spread horizontally […]

The Delaware courts have issued guilty verdicts for two of the defendants of the first trial group for the Vaughn 17. Only one person, Dwayne Staats, was found guilty of murder, Jarreau Ayers was found found guilty of kidnapping and assault, and Deric Forney was found not guilty of all charges. Dwayne and Jarreau were […]

On Sunday November 4th a group of organizers gathered at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to protest and create awareness of the atrocities perpetrated by Erdogan’s fascist Turkish state on Rojava/Northern Syria. Kurdish organizers, former combatants of the Rojava revolution, and members of the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement of Inland Empire, participated in the demonstration. The […]

We want to memorialize a great comrade in the struggle and a great friend to us all: Florent Sadiku. Everyone who had the pleasure of knowing Flo will attest to his kindness and bravery, but his passion and the size of his heart is what stood out more than anything. His actions were driven by […]

Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement’s RAM-NYC, RAM Philadelphia and Vaughn 17 Support Philly are organizing court support for the brave comrades inside the walls: The Vaughn 17. We are calling on prison abolitionists and revolutionary comrades to attend the trial in a strong showing of solidarity in Wilmington, Delaware. The first group starts trial Oct. 8, 2018, […]

The prison strike has launched! Around the country, RAM chapters hosted and participated in events to show solidarity with people incarcerated, and those at the mercy of ICE. In the lead-up to the prison strike, groups in Chicago, New Haven, the Inland Empire, and New York sent letters to people in prison to let them […]

On August 21st, people locked up in prisons throughout the United States are set to go on strike, calling attention not only to heinous abuses and inhumane conditions, but also to the ongoing enslavement of millions of people inside American prisons. After the Civil War, slavery remained institutionalized in American society through the constitution’s 13th […]

This Juneteenth the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement calls on revolutionaries to join us in setting fire to prison society, as we renew the abolitionist struggle against modern day slavery. In response to the call from the End Prison Slavery in Texas Movement, we intend to stand side by side with those inside and outside of prison […]

When the video of the cold-blooded execution of Daniel Shaver by a barbaric cop, Philip Brailsford, was released to the public, we all saw yet another case of abuse of the monopoly on violence that is possessed by the state. We saw the court system confirm this atrocity when it absolved the officer of guilt, […]

In Rojava, now called The Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, people are facing the fight of their lives. The fascist Turkish state began a full onslaught into Afrin Canton on January 20, with the intention of occupying Northern Syria, destroying the Kurdish resistance, re-populating it with sympathizers, and, importantly, wiping out the autonomous self-governance and […]